Five non-negotiables of Christianity: 1. We are justified by faith alone in Jesus Christ. 2. God is triune in nature. 3. The Bible is the inerrant, infallible word of God and our highest authority. 4. Jesus Christ is fully God and fully human. 5. Jesus bodily resurrected.

This is George Heinrich Pfluger, the man whose family is the namesake of Pflugerville, Texas. George was born in what is now Germany in 1834, but Texas got aholt of him early: in 1850, at just 16 years old, George crossed the Atlantic with his parents, landed on the Texas coast, and then made the long journey inland to Central Texas. His father, Henry Pfluger, had once been a wealthy man in Germany, but war and political upheaval had stripped away nearly everything he owned. So he did what generations of Texans have done since: he headed for new country and started over. The Pflugers first stayed with Henry’s brother-in-law, John Liese, on a farm east of Austin. Then, in 1853, Henry put down roots of his own, paying Liese $960 for 960 acres along Brushy Creek north of the capital. One dollar an acre bought the family a fresh start and, eventually, put the Pfluger name on the map. For years, the little settlement remained just that: little. Pflugerville did not begin attracting many more residents until after the Civil War, when churches and a school gave the community some bones. Then came the railroad. In 1904, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad pushed its tracks nearby, tying Pflugerville more closely to the wider world and helping turn a German immigrant settlement into a proper Texas town. And George, who had crossed an ocean for Texas as a boy, lived long enough to see all of it happen. He died in 1910 and is buried in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Pflugerville, not far from the country his family helped settle. I should note that Pflugerville was a small town for all of George's life and, in fact, up through 1980, when the population was 745. It's now more than 71,000.

SPC Noonan of the Oklahoma National Guard is stationed in Washington DC for the DC Safe and Beautiful mission. He brought his legally owned handgun with him and was arrested after he admitted to having it during a traffic stop. Jeanine Pirro, the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, could drop these unconstitutional charges tomorrow and she should do so immediately. Feel free to let @USAttyPirro know how you feel about this injustice below ⬇️ #E4Mafia #CivilRights #2nd #2a #soldier #ShamShield #DC

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The Myth of an Islamic Reformation On October 31, 1517 German Catholic Priest, Martin Luther, nailed a list of 95 Theses (or arguments) against the Catholic Church to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. This sparked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, leading to major changes to the Christian Church at large, and to the culture of Europe as we know it. Indeed, you can trace the cultural roots of the United States to the Protestant Reformation. There is no doubt that without it the world would be a very different place, and not for the better. Recently I have heard several folks refer to a hypothetical "Islamic Reformation," suggesting that such a thing ought to take place, or even that it will take place, it's just a matter of time. The argument goes that Islam is "due" a reformation. After all, such a thing happened about 1,500 years into the Christian faith, and we're getting close to that with Islam, so why not? I'll tell you why not. 1) I think the underlying premise here is wrong. If you look at religion through a secular, "neutral," sociological lens, you might believe that you can simply rearrange the pieces of any given religion like building blocks and make a new structure entirely, but it's not that simple. Religions are not interchangeable, and Christianity and Islam are fundamentally different from one another across a host of important metrics. In fact, Islam is fundamentally different from all religions across a host of metrics, but we'll stick to the Christian-Islamic comparison for now. Christianity is, at its core, about the worship of the one true God, and having a right relationship with him, achievable exclusively by Grace, through Faith in His Son, Jesus. Christianity is Trinitarian, meaning we believe in One God in Three Persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). Christianity fully affirms the Old Testament, aka the Hebrew Bible aka The Tanakh, but it doesn't stop there. The New Testament of the Christian Bible explicitly quotes the Old Testament between 280 and 350 times, and alludes to the Old Testament over 1,000 times. Christianity is authentically the continuation of something, rather than something entirely new, Christians today read the Old Testament as much as the New. By contrast, Islam is a religion that is fundamentally about submission (to the will of Allah, as described by his Muhammad), and his will is... conquest. The official founding of Islam occurred with the founding of an Islamic State, and it's growth has occurred through the growth of that state as driven by military conquest. This is both what Islam's holy book (the Quran) has prescribed, and it is what Muslims have done for 1,400 years. While the Quran states that both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible are true, it quotes the Bible a grand total of ZERO times. Rather, it twists the narrative of scripture, or downright contradicts it in almost every place that it does refer to the Bible, and Muslims almost never read the Bible unless they're involved professionally in apologetics against Christianity. 2) The Protestant Reformation, amongst other things, was about a return to scripture. One of the major components of the Reformation was Sola Scriptura, or "Scripture Alone." Over time, the Catholic Church had drifted away from relying heavily on the Bible, and instead more heavily upon the teachings of the Pope and other Church leaders. When those teachings were not supported by the Bible, or worst, contradicted the Bible, it simply wasn't seen as a big deal, and since there was so little emphasis on the Bible anyway, most folks didn't know the Bible well enough to even notice such contradictions. Christian Reformation inherently meant becoming more devout according to the original texts, not some new "version" of Christianity that was "updated" for more a more modern era. And what does a devout Christian look like? What does an "extreme" Christian look like? It looks like someone who loves God and loves their neighbor. It looks like someone who is willing to lay down his own life for others. It looks like a person who speaks truth, and helps the poor. It looks like someone who forgives, even when forgiveness looks impossible. A comparable "Reformation" within Islam would mean a return to the fundamental texts of Islam, aka the Quran, and what does the Quran say? Quran 9:5 commands Muslims to kill Christians wherever they find them, to capture them and besiege them, and to lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But they can be allowed to live if they repent, and establish prayer, and pay a special tax. This is what devout Muslims believe. This is the law devout Muslims follow, which leads me to the 3rd, and final point: 3) A "Reformation" of Islam cannot, and will not happen, but what is happening instead is a cycle of devoutness to complacency to devoutness against that has been going on since the beginning of Islam in 622 AD. The first 100 years of Islam was explosive. Part of Muhammad's teaching was not only that Muslims must engage in physical, violent battle and conquest against the Infidels, but that the result of said violence is win-win. If you live you get to keep the spoils of war that you capture, including slaves, and especially female slaves, who you can do whatever you want with sexually (this is in the Quran) with no consequences whatsoever. And guess what! If you die, even better! You go to paradise where you will have 72 perpetual virgins who please you sexually all the time, and they're even described as having large eyes and large breasts. Yes, they're essentially anime characters. These incentives worked well, and Islam went from being present in one city in the desert of what is now Saudi Arabia, to conquering all of what we now know as the Middle East and North Africa, and virtually all of Spain in less than 100 years. But in 718 they failed in their Siege of Constantinople, and in 732 they were stopped from conquering France by Charles "The Hammer" Martel at the Battle of Tours. Their growth, for the time being, was stopped. Islamic warlords who had amassed insane wealth began to think more about how they could maintain their wealth and standards of living, and focused less on expansionary Jihad, and more on enjoying life and protecting what they had. So began an era of complacency. But eras of complacency were always temporary. There were always underdogs, who read the Quran, and hated the hypocrisy, opulence, and laziness of their leaders. With their devotion they would inspire a following of those who were also devout, and also ready to risk their lives in a fight. The devout would take over, supplanting the complacent leadership, and leading new rounds of Jihad and conquest. The cycle continued for hundreds of years. In that time Islam has had upswings and downswings. In 1683 they besieged Vienna Austria, on the edge of taking all of Europe, but they were thankfully defeated. Thus began a several-hundred-year downward spiral. In the present day we've forgotten what a threat Islam once was to the West, but we're starting to remember. 6% of the UK is Muslim. 10% of France is Muslim. Austria is 8% Muslim. Netherlands is 7% Muslim. You see it in the riots in France. You see it in the rape gangs in the UK. You see terrorist training camps in Amsterdam. Even the US faces a massive growth in mosques and Islamic communities practicing Shariah (Islamic Law) rather than American Law. Whole neighborhoods are popping up with Arabic street names and HOA dues that fund the local mosques. In the USA. Do not expect an Islamic Reformation, because there won't be one. What will happen is that the moderate Muslims will continue to lose influence and market share across the globe as Islam grows, and all Muslims see that they have the opportunity to have an upper hand over the Infidels. All Muslims, even if they claim to be moderate, know what the Quran commands about conquest, about killing Infidels, about forcing Infidels to submit to Islam. Any Muslim who remains Muslim is choosing Islam over every other system, and they will not stick their necks out for the Infidels when faced with a choice. It's high time that the West in general, and America in particular wake up to what Islam is. Enough wishful thinking. The history of Islam is long, and it is brutal, and we are absolute fools if we believe that it will ever stop of its own accord. Muslims explicitly believe that they can and must lie to Infidels, even in official matters such as treaties. Historically peace has existed between Muslims and Christians, but it was always temporary, and served as an opportunity for Muslims to regain their footing before betraying Christians and attacking again. Let's learn from the past, and use what we have learned to secure our future. SOLI DEO GLORIA PAX AMERICANA 🇺🇸

William Tyndale was executed on October 6, 1536. Thankful for brave men like him.

You don’t get baptized to get saved. You get baptized because you’ve been saved. The water isn’t the Savior. Jesus is.

🔥 There is no “problem of evil” in the Bible. God is perfectly good, wise, loving, just, merciful, holy, and blameless. He is Creator, Judge, and Justifier—and all things unfold according to His sovereign purpose. The so-called “problem of evil” arises when people become uncomfortable with the God Scripture actually reveals and try to reconcile Him with their own expectations. God does not need to be rescued from His sovereignty. He is righteous in all His ways. 👑 #SovereigntyOfGod #Calvinism #Theology

🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Houston TX after a White father was SH0T TO DE*TH by a Black man while HANDING OUT FOOD to the homeless... ...and the man charged was already locked up for a ST*BBING, got hit with FOUR MORE FELONIES in jail, and prosecutors DROPPED ALL FOUR!!! Yes, you read that right. He was charged with assaulting jailers while waiting to go to prison for a st*bbing, and he never served a single extra day for it. The father's name was John Donat, he was 58 years old. He was a former chef, originally from Ohio, who came to Texas about 10 years ago. He had battled drugs himself, police say he got sober and turned his life around, and John dedicated his life to helping people. He picked up food from the local food bank on Westheimer, cooked whatever he could, and handed it out outside the motel where he lived. Especially to people fighting the same demons he once fought. He was getting ready to move to South Carolina to be closer to family, but he never made it. On Wednesday, September 30th, at about 2:18 in the morning, John was in his Tahoe on Highway 6, handing food to a woman. Police say a man walked up to the passenger side and DEMANDED MONEY. John tried to drive away and he was SH0T in the neck. His Tahoe crashed through 2 fences and into a field, he passed away right there and then. Police caught the suspect nearby. His name is Otis Parks, he's a Black man that's 30 years old. In 2018, police say Parks ST*BBED a friend REPEATEDLY... after finding out his girlfriend's baby had diaper rash. He got 7 years in jail... out of a possible 20 years. While he sat in the Harris County Jail waiting to be shipped to prison, records show he was charged with FOUR MORE FELONIES. Assaulting jailers. Possessing contraband. And prosecutors DISMISSED every one of them. Their reason? "He was already serving time for the st*bbing." Zero extra days. Say his name. John Donat. WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!

Where Can I Go from Your Spirit? | Psalm 139

New Rubik's Cube just dropped.

Want to help seniors? Abolish property taxes. Want to help first time homebuyers? Abolish property taxes. Want to help working class get a new vehicle? Abolish property taxes. Want to help make a buffer for when gas prices get out of hand? Abolish property taxes.

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Tawanda Hall missed $900 on her property taxes. The county took her $308,000 home and SOLD IT. Then took the entire $286,000 in profit. She never expected this could happen over $900. But the government took everything she owed, then everything she had. “They took my whole house, my whole family’s livelihood.” John Stossel also points to another case where a county took an entire home over an $8 debt. Nobody should have to fight in court to stop the government from taking their home over eight dollars. You work, you pay taxes. You die, you pay taxes. You buy stuff, you pay taxes. You invest and make a profit, you pay taxes. You own a home, you pay taxes. You stop paying taxes, they take your home and SELL IT! Is this a government or a damn collection agency?! At some point you gotta call it what it is: legalized theft.

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Jesus is God.

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